| A. | Acre; Auto house or private garage |
| A IN B | Auto in basement |
| AA | Automobile Assn. |
| AAA | Agricultural Adjustment Administration; American Automobile Assn. |
| AACR | Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules |
| AACR2 | Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 2d. ed. |
| AACCCM | Anglo-American Cataloguing Committee for Cartographic Materials |
| AAES | American Assn. of Engineering Societies |
| AAG | Assn. of American Geographers |
| AAGS | American Assn. for Geodetic Surveying |
| AAG | Assn. of American Geographers |
| AAPG | American Assn. of Petroleum Geologists |
| AARLS | Arkansas Assn. of Registered Land Surveyors |
| AARS | Asian Assn. on Remote Sensing |
| AARSE | African Association for the Remote Sensing of the Environment |
| AASG | American Assn. of State Geologists |
| AASP | American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists |
| AB | Air base |
| ABAG | Assn. of Bay Area Governments (California) |
| ABET | Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. |
| ABN | American Bank Note Company |
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ABSM | Alberta Bureau of Surveying and Mapping |
| Abzw | Abzweigstelle |
| AC | Aerospace Center; Air Corps; American Cartographer (journal) |
| A.C. | Antonio Castro |
| A/C | Aircraft |
| ACA | American Cartographic Assn.; American Conservation Assn.; Automovil Club Argentino; Aerial Cartographics of America (Firm) |
| ACACC | Assn. des cartoth`eques et archives cartographiques du Canada = Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives |
| ACAPS | Automated Chart Production System (C&GS) |
| ACC | Assn. des cartoth`eques et archives du Canada = Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives; Academia de Ciencias de Cuba |
| ACC | Association canadienne de cartographie |
| AC&C | Office of Aeronautical Charting and Cartography (U.S.) |
| ACCDTS | Advisory Committee on Canadian Digital Toponymic Services |
| AccuDEM | High-accuracy DEM |
| Accu-DRAPE | High-accuracy DEM Draped Images |
| ACD | Aeronautical Charting Division (C&GS) |
| ACDDS | Advanced Cartographic Data Digitizing System |
| ACE | Advanced Cartographic Equipment; Advanced Cartographic Environment (PCI Carto Inc.) |
| ACEC | American Consulting Engineers Council |
| ACG | Association canadienne des geographes; Address Coding Guides |
| ACI | Assn. Cartographique Internationale = International Cartographic Assn. |
| ACIC | Aeronautical Chart and Information Center (U.S.); Automated Cartographic Information Center (Univ. of Minnesota Library) |
| ACIU | Central Interpretation Unit (Royal Air Force, Great Britain) |
| ACLS | Assn. of Canadian Lands Surveyors |
| ACM | Assn. for Computing Machinery |
| ACMGIS | Assn. for Computing Machinery Geographic Information Systems |
| ACML | Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries |
| ACMLA | Assn. of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives |
| ACMS | Automated Census Mapping System |
ACM-
SIGGRAPH | Assn. for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Graphics |
| ACOE | Army Corps of Engineers (U.S.) |
| ACRES | Australian Centre for Remote Sensing |
| ACRS | Asian Conference on Remote Sensing |
| ACS | Advanced Cartographic Systems; Agricultural Cooperative Service; Automated Cartographic Systems; Automatic chemical sprinklers; Attitude Control Subsystem (Landsat); American Community Survey (USBC) |
| ACSAD | Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands |
| ACSC | Automobile Club of Southern California |
| ACSM | American Congress on Surveying and Mapping |
| ACSTTO | Assn. of Certified Survey Technicians and Technologists of Ontario |
| ACT | Administration du Cadastre et de la Topographie (Luxembourg); Australian Capital Territory |
| AD | Administrative Division (USGS); Aeronautical data |
| A/D | Analog to digital |
| ADAC | Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club |
| ADAR | Airborne Data Acquisition and Registration (Positive Systems, Inc.) |
| ADC | Alexandria Drafting Company; American Digital Cartography Inc |
| A-DCS | Advanced/Data Collection System |
| ADDA | American Design Drafting Assn. |
| ADE | AutoCAD Data Extension |
| ADEOS | Advanced Earth Observing Satellite |
| ADEPT | Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype |
| ADF | Application Development Facility (GeoVision Corp.) |
| ADFG | Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game |
| ADI | Areas of Dominent Influence (USBC TIGER) |
| ADK | Arealdatakontoret (Denmark) |
| ADL | Alexandria Digital Library |
| Adm. | Admiral; Admiralty |
| ADM1 | First-order administrative division |
| ADM2 | Second-order administrative division |
| ADNR | Alaska Dept. of Natural Resources |
| ADOT | Arizona Dept. of Transportation |
| ADOTPF | Alaska Dept. of Transportation and Public Facilities |
| ADP | Automated data processing |
| ADPDP | Alaska Division of Policy Development and Planning |
| ADR | Aerial Data Reduction Associates Inc. |
| ADRG | ARC-digitized raster graphics (USDMA) |
| ADRGs | Arc digitized raster graphics(USDMA) |
| ADSL | Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line |
| Ad. St. | Aldolf Stieler |
| ADT | Advanced Data Technologies, Inc.; Abstract Data Type |
| AdV | Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Vermessungsverwaltungen der Lander der Bundesrepublik Deutschland |
| ADW | Agricultural drainage well |
| ADWR | Arizona Dept. of Water Resources |
| A/E | Architectural/engineering |
| A&E | Architect and Engineering |
| AEC | Architecture, engineering and construction |
| AED | Analysis and Evaluation Div. |
| AEF | Alliance for Environmental Education; Accurate Environmental Forecasting, Inc. |
| AEG | Association of Engineering Geologists |
| AEI | Aerial Exposure Index |
| AEIDC | Arctic Environmental Information Data Center |
| AEM | Atmospheric Explorer Mission |
| AERS | Advanced Earth Resources Satellite |
| AES | Analysis and Evaluation Staff |
| AESE | Association of Earth Science Editors |
| Aest. | Aestuarium = Estuary |
| AE2S | Advanced Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc.
|
| AFA | American Forestry Assn.; Automatic fire alarm |
| AFB | Air Force base; Aerial FotoBank (Firm) |
| AFCEA | Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Assn. |
| AFE | Automated feature extraction
|
| AFF | American Fact Finder (DADSO)
|
| AFFRC | Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Center (Japan) |
| AFI | American Forest Inst. |
| AFLAG | Asean Federation of Land Surveying and Geomatics |
| AFREF | African Geodetic Reference Frame |
| AfRL | Akademie fur Raumforschung und Landesplanung (Germany) |
| AFS | Air Force station |
| AFT | Ambiguity function technique |
| AFWA | Air Force Weather Agency (U.S.) |
| AG | Attorney General |
| AGC | Assn. Geologique du Canada; Arkansas Geological Commission |
| AGCHO | Afghan Geodesy and Cartography Head Office |
| AGCO | Afghan Geodesy and Cartography Office |
| AGDS | Automated Graphics Digitizing System |
| AGI | American Geological Inst.; Assn. for Geographic Information (London); Analytical Graphics, Inc. |
| AGIC | Alabama Geographic Information Council; Arizona Geographic Information Council |
| AGILE | Association of Geographic Information Laboratories |
| AGIO | Arkansas Geographic Information Office |
| AGIS | Automated Geographic Information System |
AgRI-
STARS | Agriculture and Resources Inventory Surveys through Aerospace Remote Sensing |
| AGS | American Geographical Society; Alberta Geological Survey |
| AGSL | American Geographical Society Library |
| AGSO | Australian Geological Survey Organisation |
| AGSS | American Geographical and Statistical Society |
| AGU | American Geophysical Union |
| AHAP | Alaska High-altitude Aerial Photography (program) |
| AHCPR | U.S. Agency for Health Care and Policy Research |
| AHDAS | Adaptable Hydrologic Data Acquisition System |
| AHDS | Arts and Humanities Data Service |
| AHRS | Attitude and Heading Reference System |
| AHS | Automated Highway System |
| AI | Artificial intelligence; Appraisal Inst. |
| AIA | American Inst. of Architects |
| AI/ANA | American Indian/Alaska Native Area |
| AIC | Australian Institute of Cartographers |
| AICP | American Inst. of Certified Planners |
| AID | Agency for International Development; Aeronautical information data |
| AIH | American Inst. of Hydrology |
| AILESP | American Indian Lands Environmental Support Project |
| AIMS | Airborne Integrated Mapping System; Automated Investigation Measurement System (Nikon) |
| AIPG | American Inst. of Professional Geologists |
| AIPP | Ambroziak Infinite Perspective Projection |
| AIR | American Indian reservation |
| AIRS | Atomspheric Infrared Sounder |
| AIREA | American Inst. of Real Estate Appraisers |
| AIRS | Atmospheric infrared sounder |
| AISH | Assn. Internationale des Sciences Hydrologiques = International Assn. of Hydrological Sciences |
| AJG | African Journal of Geoinformation |
| AK | Alaska |
| AL | Alabama |
| Ala. | Alabama |
| ALA | American Library Assn. |
| ALAE | Atmospheric LymanAlpha Emissions |
| ALARS | Alaska Land and Resources System |
| ALI | Advanced Land Imager |
| ALIS | Automated Land Information System (TVA) |
| ALMRS | Automated Land and Mineral Record System (US BLM) |
| ALOHA | Aerial Locations of hazardous Atmospheres (model) |
| ALP | Automated Lands Project |
| Alt. | Altitude |
| ALTA | American Land Title Assn. |
| ALTM | Airborne Laser Terrain Mapper (Optech) |
| ALTMS | Airborne Laser Topographic Mapping System |
| AM | Automated Mapping |
| AMA | Associacion Mexicana Automovilistica |
| AMAD | Airborne Missions and Applications Division (NASA-Ames Research Center) |
| AMAP | Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program |
| AMC | Assn. Mineralogique du Canada; Australian Map Circle Inc. |
| AME | Aero-Metric Engineering Inc. |
| AM/FM | Automated mapping/facilities management |
| AMG | Australian Map Grid |
| AMI | Applied Mapping Inc. |
| AMIE | Airglow Measurements of Infrared Measurements Emissions |
| AMIS | Aviation Management Information System |
| AMISAR | Active Microwave ImagerSynthetic Aperture Radar |
| AML | ARC Macro Language |
| AMPS | Automatic Mapping and Planning System |
| AMS | Army Map Service; American Meteorological Society; Attitude Measurement Sensor; Automated Mapping System |
| AMSD | Adjusted Mapping Support Data |
| AMSR | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
| AMSU | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (JPL) |
| An. | Anno = year |
| A.N.A. | Asociacion Nacional Automovilistica (Mexico) |
| ANA | Area Navigation Approach |
| ANARE | Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions |
| ANTGS | Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System |
| ANMS | Automated Notice to Mariners System |
| ANOVA | Analyses of variance |
| ANRC | Alaska Native Regional Corp. |
| ANSI | American National Standards Inst. |
| ANV | Alaska Native village |
| ANVSA | Alaska Native village statistical area |
| ANWR | Arctic National Wildlife Refuge |
| ANZLIC | Australia New Zealand Land Information Council |
| AO | Area of Operations |
| AOA | Allen Osborne Associates, Inc. |
| AODC | Australian Oceanographic Data Centre |
| AOI | Area of Interest |
| AOIPS | Atmospheric and Oceanographic Image Processing System |
| AOL | America On Line |
| AOLS | Assn. of Ontario Land Surveyors |
| AOML | Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| AOO | American Oceanographic Organization |
| AOSS | Ashtech Office Suite for Survey |
| AP | Analytical Plotter |
| APA | American Planning Assn. |
| APCA | Air Pollution Control Assn. |
| APCM | Aerial Photography Contract Management System |
| APD | Automated Plat Design (ConneXt, Inc.) |
| A.P.D.R. | Avec privilege du Roi = By license of the King |
| APE | Allen Precision Equipment |
| APEGGA | Assn. of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta |
| APFO | Aerial Photography Field Office (USDA) |
| API | American Petroleum Inst.; Application programming interface |
| APIS | Aerial Photography Information System |
| APMI | Aerial Photography Micrographic Index System (USGS) |
| Apo. | Apogee |
| APPSR | Aerial Photography Progress Summary Report |
| APQF | Aerial Photography Quad File |
| APR | Airborne Profile Recorder |
| APS | Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor |
| APSR | Aerial Photography Summary Record |
| APSRS | Aerial Photography Summary Record System (USGS) |
| APT | Automatic picture transmission; Area proportional to |
| APTS | Aerial Profiling of Terrain System |
| APWA | American Public Works Assn. |
| APWWA | American Public Water Works Assn. |
| AR | Arkansas |
| ARA | Address Register Area; Algemeen Rijksarchief (Netherlands) |
| ARAMCO | Arabian American Oil Company |
| Arb. | Arbeiter |
| ARC | Ames Research Center (NASA); Appalachian Regional Commission |
| ARCC | American Rivers Conservation Council |
| ArcFM | Arc Facilities Manager (ESRI) |
| Arch. | Architect; Architecture |
| Arc-SDE | Arc Spatial Data Engine |
| ARG | American Resources Group |
| ARIA | Arizona Regional Image Archive |
| ARIS | Alabama Resource Information System; Arizona Resources Information System |
| Ark. | Arkansas |
| ARM | Administracion de Recursos Minerales (Panama); Airborne Remote Mapping |
| ARMIS | Arkansas Resource Management Information System |
| Arr. | Arrondissement |
| ARRSTC | Asian Regional Remote Sensing Training Centre |
| ARS | Agricultural Research Service (USDA) |
| ARSC | Australian Remote Sensing Conference |
| ARSP | Applied Remote Sensing Program (Univ. of Arizona) |
| Artil. | Artillery |
| ARZ | AutoRestricted Zone |
| AS | Anti-spoofing; Area source; automatic sprinklers |
| A-S | Anti-spoofing |
| ASA | American Standards Assn. |
| ASAP | Advanced Scientific Array Processor; Agricultural Sciences Advisory Panel |
| ASAR | Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| ASB. CL. | Asbestos-covered frame building |
| ASC | American Society of Cartographers |
| ASCE | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| ASCF | Ames Satellite Communications Facility |
| ASCIE | American Standard Code for Information Exchange |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASCLA | Assn. of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ALA) |
| ASCP | America Society of Consulting Planners |
| ASCS | Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (USDA) |
| ASDD | Australian Spatial Data Directory |
| ASDI | Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| ASEE | American Society for Engineering Education |
| ASF | Alaska SAR Facility |
| ASFE | Assn. of Soil and Foundation Engineers |
| ASFPM | Assn. of State Floodplain Managers |
| ASGA | Assn. des Services Geologiques Africains |
| ASHTD | American Assn. of State Highway and Transportation Officials |
| ASI | Analytical Surveys, Inc. |
| ASLA | American Society of Landscape Architects |
| ASLO | American Society of Limnology and Oceanography |
| ASMC | Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference |
| ASO | Australian Survey Office |
| ASP | American Society of Photogrammetry; Application service provider |
| ASPG | American Society for Professional Geographers |
ASPLS
| Alabama Society of Professional Land Surveyors; Alaska Society of Professional Land Surveyors |
| ASPRS | American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
|
| ASPS | Arkansas Society of Professional Surveyors |
| ASRL | Atmospheric Sciences Research Laboratory |
| Ass. | Association |
| Assn. | Association |
| AST | Atlantic Standard Time; Automated Summary Tables |
| ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer |
| ASTM | American Society for Testing Materials |
| AT | Aero-Triangulation |
| ATC | Air Target Chart; Advance Technology Corp. |
| ATID | Attribute ID |
ATIS
Roads | Arizona Transportation Information System (ADOT) |
| ATKIS | Amtliches Topographisch-Kartographisches Informationssystem |
| ATM | Adaptive triangular mesh |
| ATMET | Atmospheric, Meteorological and Environmental Technologies, LLC |
| ATMS | Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder |
| ATR1 | Automatic Target Recognition module (Leica) |
| ATS | Advanced Technology Satellite; Applications Technology Satellite; Automated Technical Systems (Firm) |
| AU | Astronomical unit |
| AURISA | Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Assn. |
| AUSDEC | Australasian Data Exchange Centre |
| AUSLIG | Australian Surveying and Land Information Group |
| Av. | Avenue |
| AV | Audio-visual; AmericaView |
| AVCA | Audio-visual and Cartographic Archives Div., National Archives of Canada |
| Ave. | Avenue |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| AVI | Audio Visual Interleave |
| AVIRIS | Advanced Visible/InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer |
| AVL | Automatic Vehicle Location |
| AVNIR | Advanced Visible and Near Infrared Radiometer |
| AVO | Alaska Volcano Observatory; Audio/visual object; Amplitude Versus Offset; |
| AVRI | Arizona Vegetation Resource Inventory |
| AVS | Application Visualization System (Visual Systems, Inc.) |
| AWAR | Area weighted average resolution |
| AWG | Association for Women Geoscientists |
| AWIPS | Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System |
| AWLS | American West Land Surveying (Firm) |
| AWMC | Ancient World Mapping Center |
| AWMSAS | ArcView Marine Spill Analysis System |
| AWRA | American Water Resources Assn. |
| AWS | Air Weather Service |
| AWWA | American Water Works Assn. |
| AZ | Arizona |
| A.Z. | Alexander Zakreski |
| AzMAP | Arizona Mapping Advisory Council |
| B | Bulletin |
| B&L | Boggs and Lewis |
| BA | Booksellers Assn. of Great Britain & Ireland |
| BAAMA | Bay Area Automated Mapping Assn. |
| BADGER | Bay Area Digital GeoResource |
BAKOSUR-
TANAL | Badan Koordinasi Survey dan Pemetaan Nasional (Indonesia) = National Coordination Agency for Surveying and Mapping (Indonesia) |
| Banobras | Banco Nacional de Obras y Servicios Publicos (Mexico) |
| BAOR | British Army of the Rhine |
| BARCIS | BARCode Information System |
| BARD | San Francisco Bay Area Regional Database |
| BARP | Bundesamt fur Raumplanung (Switzerland) |
| BART | Bay Area Rapid Transit District (California) |
| BAS | British Antarctic Survey |
| BASIC | Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code; Bay Area Shared Information Consortium |
| BASINS | Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Systems (USEPA) |
| BB | Band-by-band; Blattbereich |
| BBS | Bulletin board system |
| BC | British Columbia; Ballistic camera; Bureau of the Census (U.S.) |
| BCC | Bibliographic Control Committee (ACMLA) |
| BCDC | Bay Conservation and Development Commission |
| BCGS | Board of Coast and Geodetic Survey (Philippines) |
| BCH | Beach |
| BCSS | Battlefield Command Support System (Australian Army) |
| BDET | Bengston, DeBell, Elkin & Titus Ltd. |
| BDG | Bridge |
| Bdy | Boundary |
| BE | Brick enclosed elevator |
| BEA | Bernhard, Eisenbraun and Associates; Bureau of Economic Analysis (US) |
| B.E.F. | British Expeditionary Force |
| BEG | Bureau of Economic Geology (Texas) |
| BEICIP | Bureau d'Etudes Industrielles et de Cooperation de l'Institut Francais du Petrole |
| bes. | besonders |
| BES | Bureau of Environmental Service (Portland, Oregon) |
| Betrbf | Betriebsbahnhof |
| BETS | Brunson Electronic Triangulation System |
| BEV | Bundesamt fur Eich- und Vermessungswesen (Austria) |
| BFE | Base flood elevation |
| BfGR | Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (Germany) |
| BfLR | Bundesanstalt fur Landeskunde und Raumentwicklung (Germany) |
| BG | Block group |
| BGC | Business Geographics Conference |
| BGHT | Bight |
| BGN | Board on Geographic Names (U.S.) |
| BGS | British Geological Survey |
| Bgw. | Bergwerk = mine |
| Bhf. | Bahnhof = Railway station |
| BHS | Boston Harbor Software, Inc. |
| BI | Big Idea (NIMA); Business intelligence |
| BIA | Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S.) |
| BIC | Borderlands Information Center (Texas) |
| BICI | Book item contribution identifier |
| BIG | Brunei Institution of Geomatics |
| BIL | Band Interleaved by Line |
| BIMCC | Brussels International Map Collectors' Circle |
| BIOMAPS | Biodiversity Mapping for Protection and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources |
| BIOTROP | Regional Center for Tropical Biology (Indonesia) |
| BIP | Band Interleaved by Pixel |
| Bl. | Boulevard |
| BLDG | Building |
| BLG | Binary line generalization |
| BLIS | Brownfields Location Information System (Wisconsin Dept. of Commerce) |
| BLM | Bureau of Land Management (U.S.) |
| BLOB | Binary large object |
| BLPU | Basic land and property unit |
| BLS | Bahamas Lands and Surveys Dept. |
| BLT | Bundesamt fur Landestopographie (Switzerland) |
| BLVA | Bayerisches Landesvermessungsamt |
| Blvd. | Boulevard |
| BM | Bench mark; Bureau of Mines |
| BMA | Botswana Ministry of Agriculture |
| BMAC | Bactria Margiana Archaeology Complex |
| BMDO | Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (U.S.) |
| BMG | Bureau of Mines and Geosciences (Philippines) |
| .BMP | Bitmapped image format (Microsoft Corp.) |
| BMR | Bureau of Mineral Resources (Australia, Papua New Guinea) |
| BMW | Barclay Mapworks, Inc. |
| BN | Biblioth`eque Nationale |
| BNA | Block numbering area |
| BND | Stream bend |
| BNDT | Base nationale de donnees topographiques (Canada) |
| BnF | Bibliotheque national de France |
| BNPC | Bathymetric navigation planning chart |
| BNPD | Bivariate Normal Probability Density |
| BNSC | British National Space Centre |
| BOA | Building omission area |
| BOC | Bureau of the Census |
| BOFRS | Books and Open-File Report Section (USGS) |
| BOLS | BADGER On-line Service |
| BOM | Bureau of Mines |
| BOP | Bureau of Printing |
| BOR | Bureau of Reclamation (U.S.) |
| BOREAS | Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study |
| BORPELS | Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors (Calif.) |
| BOSS | Behavior of Offshore Structures, Conference on |
| BOTUS | Best of the U.S. (Space Imaging) |
| BP | Boundary marker (USDMA) |
| BPA | Bonneville Power Administration |
| BPI | Bits per Inch |
| BPPT | Badan Pembinaan dan Penerapan Teknologi (Indonesia) |
| BPR | Bureau of Public Roads |
| BPS | Bits per Second |
| BR | Bureau of Reclamation |
| br. | breit |
| Br. | Breite |
| Brck. | Brucke = bridge |
| BRFD | Bidirectional reflectance distribution function |
| BRICMICS | British and Irish Committee for Map Information and Catalogue Systems |
| BRGM | Bureau de recherches geologique et minieres (France) |
| BRS | Bibliographic Retrieval Service |
| BS | Bureau of Statistics (Japan) |
| Bs. As. | Buenos Aires |
| BSB | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek |
| BSC | Boston Survey Consultants |
| BSE | Base flood elevation |
| BSNH | Headwater basin |
| BSQ | Band Sequential |
| BSU | Base Spatial Unit |
| BT | Base Topo |
| BTA | Basic Trading Areas (FCC) |
| BTS | Bureau of Transportation Statistics (US) |
| BUIS | Beihai Urban Information Center |
| BUPMIS | Beihai Urban Planning Management Information System |
| BUPNIS | Beijing Underground-Network Information System |
| BUTE | Butte |
| BVG | Berliner Verkehrs Gesellschaft |
| BVU | Brightness Value Unit |
| B/W | Black and white |
| BWC | Bandwidth Compression |
| BWE | Bandwidth Expansion |
| C | Cartography; Celsius (degrees) |
| ca. | Circa |
| CA | California; Cartographic and architectural |
| C/A | Coarse-Acquisition (code) |
| CAA | Civil Aeronautics Administration (U.S.); Civil Aviation Authority (Great Britain) |
| CAAD | Cartographic and Architectural Archives Div., National Archives of Canada |
| CAC | Center for Advanced Computation (Univ. of Illinois); Compressed Aeronautical Chart (U.S. government) |
| CACS | Canadian Active Control System |
| CAD | Computer-aided drafting; Computer assisted design |
| CADD | Computer-aided design and drafting |
| CADMAP | Computer-aided drafting, mapping, and photogrammetry |
| CADRG | Compressed ADRG |
| CAFF | Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna |
| CAFM | Computer-aided facility management |
| CAG | Canadian Association of Geographers |
| CaGIS | Cartography and Geographic Information Science (journal)); Cartography and Geographic Information Systems (journal) |
| CAGIS | Cartography and Geographic Information Society |
| Cal. | California |
| Calif. | California |
| CALMIT | Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln) |
| CALS | Connecticut Assn. of Land Surveyors; Computer-aided acquisition and logistic support; Computer Assisted Land Survey System (SPDK) |
| CALTRANS | California Dept. of Transportation |
| CAM | Computer aided mapping |
| CAMA | Computer-aided mass appraisal system (Montana) |
| CAMEO | Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations System (U.S.) |
| CAMFER | Center for the Assessment & Monitoring of Forest & Environmental Resources (Univ. of Calif., Berkeley) |
| CAN | Controlled Area Network |
| CANRI | Community Access to Natural Resources Information |
| CanSIS | Canadian Soil Information System |
| CANSPACE | Canadian Space Geodesy Forum |
| CAP | Cooperative Agreements Program (FGDC) |
| CAPCO | Capital Area Planning Council (Texas) |
| CAPDU | Canadian Assn. of Public Data Users |
| CAR | Curriculum, Accreditation and Registration Committee (ACSM); Central African Republic |
| CARES | Center for Agricultural, Resource, and Environmental Systems (Univ. of Missouri) |
| CARL | Canadian Assn. of Research Libraries |
| CARS | Computer-Assisted Reproduction; Center for Applications of Remote Sensing (Oklahoma State Univ.) |
| CASA | Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (Univ. College, London) |
| CASE | Computer-Aided Software Engineering |
| CaSIL | California Spatial Information Library |
| CASS | Coding and Accuracy Support System (USPS) |
| CAST | Center for Advanced and Spatial Technologies (Univ. of Arkansas) |
| CAT | Computer Assisted Thermography |
| CATS | Consequences Assessment Tool Set (FEMA) |
| CAVA | Cartographic and Audio-Visual Archives Div. = Div. des archives cartographiques et audio-visuelles (DACA), National Archives of Canada |
| CAZRI | Central Arid Zone Research Institute |
| CB | Column builder |
| C.B. | Hollow concrete or cement block construction |
| CBD | Central business district |
| CBEP | Community-Based Environmental Protection (USEPA program) |
| CBET | Concrete block enclosed elevator |
| CBF | Cartographic boundary file |
| CBI | China Burma India Theatre of Operations (WW II) |
| CBL | Centraal Bureau Luchtkartering (Suriname); Calibration (or calibrated) base line |
| cbm | Kubikmeter (cubic meter) |
| CBM | Coalbed Methane Map (Wyoming State Geological Survey) |
| CBN | Cooperative Base Network |
| CBP | Chesapeake Bay Project |
| C. BR | Concrete, lime, cinder or cement brick |
| CBS | Community Base Station |
| CBWE | Corn Blight Watch Experiment |
| CC | Cartographic Catalog |
| C.C. | Chain carrier |
| CCA | Canadian Cartographic Assn. |
| CCAFS | Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (Florida) |
| CCAP | Competative Cooperative Agreements Program (U.S.) |
| CCBCCM | Canadian Committee for the Bibliographic Control of Cartographic Materials |
| CCC | Canadian Committee on Cataloging |
| CCCELS | California Council of Civil Engineers and Land Surveyors |
| CCD | Census county division; Computer Center Div. (USGS); Charged couple device; Charged-coupled device; Charge-coupled device |
| CCELC | Canada Committee on Ecological Land Classification |
| CCGE | Canadian Council on Geographic Education |
| CCGM | Center for Computing Graphics (Delft Univ. of Technology) |
| CCIG | Centre canadien d'information sur la geoscience |
| CCID | Chain component ID |
| CCISA | Congress of Cartographic Information Specialist Associations |
| CCITT | International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee |
| CCK | Centrale Catalogus Kartografie (National Library of the Netherlands) |
| CCLS | Canadian Council of Land Surveyors |
| CCM | Canada Centre for Mapping; Compressed County Mosaic (USDA) |
| CCNS4 | Computer Controlled Navigation System (E. Coyote Enterprises, Inc.) |
| CCPS | Central Colorado Professional Surveyors |
| CCRS | Canada Centre for Remote Sensing |
| CCT | Computer Compatible Tape; Centro de Ciencia Tropical |
| CD | Compact disc; Conservation Div. (USGS); Committee Draft (ISO) |
| CDA | Colorado Dept. of Agriculture |
| CDC | California Dept. of Conservation; Control Data Corporation |
| CD-CINC | CD-ROM Consistent Interface Committee (U.S.) |
| CDED | Canadian Digital Elevation Data |
| CDF | Cumulative distribution function; California Dept. of Forestry (and Fire Protection)
|
| CDFG | California Dept. of Fish and Game |
| CDFS | Cloud Depiction and Forecast System |
| CDH | Communications and data handling |
| CDi | Compact Disk interactive |
| CDIS | Coordinated Design and Information System |
| CDMG | California Div. of Mines and Geology |
| CDN | Coordinates, definitions and notations |
| CDOT | Colorado Dept. of Transportation
|
| CDOW | Colorado Division of Wildlife |
| CDOWG | CD-ROM Data Origination Working Group (U.S.) |
| CDP | Cartographer Development Program; Census designated place; Colorado Division of Planning |
| .CDR | CorelDraw format |
| CD-R | Compact disk-recordable |
| CD-ROM | Compact disk-read only memory |
| CDRS | Collaborative Digital Reference Service |
| CDS | Catalogue of Data Sources |
| CDT | Computer display terminal; Central Daylight Time; Constrained Delaunay triangulation |
| CDTED | Compressed digital terrain elevation data |
| CDV | Cartographic data visualizer |
| CD-W | Compact disk-- re-writable |
| CDWR | California Dept. of Water Resources |
| CE | Corps of Engineers |
| C.E. | Civil Engineer |
| CEAL | Centro Editor de America Latina |
| CEAO | County Engineers Association of Ohio |
| CEBAF | Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility |
| CECO | Consulting Engineers Council of Ohio |
| CECSVB | Comit pour l'Etablissement de la Carte des Sols et de la Vegetation de la Belgique |
| CECW | Consulting Engineers Council of Washington |
| CEDAC | Comprehensive Economic Data Atlas of China |
| CEDARE | Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe |
| CEDD | Committee on the Exchange of Digital Data |
| CEE | Comite Estatal de Estadisticas (Cuba) |
| CEGET | Centre d'Etudes de Geographie Tropical (Bordeaux) |
| CEGIS | Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (USGS) |
| CELSOC | Consulting Engineers and Land Surveyors of California |
| Cem. | Cemetery |
| CEMA | Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Assn. |
| CEMAR | Centro de Estudos do Mar |
| CEN | Comite europeen de normalization electronique |
| CENREN | Centro de Recursos Naturales (El Salvador) |
| CENTA | Centro Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria (El Salvador) |
| CENTAUR | Civil Engineering Technologies for Automatic Roadmaking (DSNP) |
| CEO | European Centre for Earth Observation |
| CEONet | Canadian Earth Observation Network |
| CEP | Celestial Ephemeris Pole |
| CERCLIS | Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (US EPA) |
| CERCO | Comite Europeen de Responsibles de la Cartographie Officielle |
| CERD | Catalog of Environmental Resource Data |
| CERES | California Environmental Resource Evaluation System |
| CERCG | Centre d'Etudes et de Realisations Cartographiques Geographiques (France) |
| CERR | Centre d'Ecologie des Ressources Renouvelables (France) |
| CES | Committee on Earth Sciences |
| CET | Commission on Education and Training (IGA) |
| CETENAL | Comision de Estudios del Territorio Nacional (Mexico) |
| CEU | Continuing education unit |
| CFCC | Census Feature Class Code |
| CFF | Cartographic Feature File |
| CFUA | Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association |
| C.G. | Coast Guard |
| CGA | Color Graphics Adaptor |
| CGC | Commission geologique du Canada |
| CGDB | Central Geographic Data Base |
| CGDI | Canadian Geomatics Digital Initiative
; Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure |
| CGE | Comision Geografico-Exploradora (Mexico) |
| CGI | Computer Graphics Interface; Common gateway interface; Center for Geographic Information |
| CGIC | Canadian Geoscience Information Centre |
| CGIS | Center for GIS (Qatar) |
| .CGM | Computer graphics metafile |
| CGMW | Commission for the Geological Map of the World |
| CGNHS | Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey |
| CGNS | Canadian Geographical Names Service
|
| CGPM | Conference General des Poids et Mesures |
| CGPS | Continuous global positioning system
|
| CGS | California Geological Survey; Civil GPS Service; Coast and Geodetic Survey (U.S.); Colorado Geological Survey |
| C&GS | Coast and Geodetic Survey (U.S.); Commercial & Government Systems (Kodak) |
| CGSB | Canadian General Standards Board |
| CGSIC | Civil GPS Service Interface Committee |
| CGSICO | Civil GPS Service Interface Committee |
| CGTP | Cartographic and Geospatial Technology Programs
|
| CGU | Canadian Geophysical Union |
| CGW | Computer Graphics World (journal) |
| CH; Ch. | Chief Hydrologist; Church; Chapel |
| CHEEC | Center for the Health Effects of Environmental Contamination (Univ. of Iowa) |
| CHEST | Combined Higher Education Software Team (UK) |
| CHGIS | China Historical Geographic Information System (Harvard University) |
| CHIA | Cumulative Hydrologic Impact Assessment |
| CHNM | Marine channel |
| CHS | Canadian Hydrographic Service |
| CI | Compass and inclinometer; Coal Investigations Map (USGS) |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.) |
| CIAF | Centro de Investigaciones en Percepcion Remota |
| CIAS | CD-ROM Index Architecture Specification Working Group (U.S.) |
| CIACER | Centro de Investigacion y Aplicacion de Sensores Remotos (Bolivia) |
| CIB | Controlled image base |
| CIBESA | Cartografica Iberica S.A. |
| CICAEDAS | Committee Investigating Cartographic Entity, Definitions, and Standards |
| CIDAMM | Centro de Informacion y Documentacion del Area Metropolitana de Madrid |
| CIE | Iompair Eireann Coras; Classified image editor |
| CIESIN | Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network |
| CIG | Canadian Inst. of Geomatics; Climate Interest Group; Centro de Investigaciones Geotecnicas (El Salvador) |
| CIGF | Centre d'Information Geographique et Fonci`ere Ministre de l'Energie et des Ressources, Quebec) |
| CIGNET | Cooperative International GPS Network |
| CIKM | Conference on Information Knowledge Management |
| CIM | Collection insertion map; Council on Information Management (Virginia) |
| CIMIS | California Irrigation Management Information System |
| CINDI | Center for Integration of Natural Disaster Information (USGS) |
| CIO | Central Imagery Office (U.S.) |
| CIP | Contour Interpolation Program; Canadian Institute of Planners |
| CIR | Color infrared |
| CIRSS | California Integrated Remote Sensing System |
| CIS | Canadian Inst. of Surveying; Color Imaging Systems (Barneyscan Corp.) |
| CISD | Cook Islands Dept. of Survey |
| CISIG | Conservational International GIS |
| CISM | Canadian Inst. of Surveying and Mapping |
| CIST | Centre d'information sur les sciences de la Terre (Canada) |
| CITYG | City Graphic |
| CIU | Central Interpretation Unit (Royal Air Force, Great Britain) |
| CK-PL | Check plotter |
| CLA | Canadian Library Association |
| CLD | Center line data |
| CLDB | Common Land Data Base |
| CLDS | Canada Land Data System(s) |
| CLI | Canada Land Inventory |
| CLID | Class identifier |
| CLIRSEN | Remote Sensing Center (Ecuador) |
| Clk. | Clerk |
| CLL | Corrected line length |
| CLOMA | Confidential letters of map amendment |
| CLS | Canada Lands Surveyor |
| CLSA | California Land Surveyors Assn. |
| CLSR | Canada Lands Surveys Records |
| CLU | Common land units |
| CLUMP | Canada Land Use Monitoring Program |
| cm | Centimeter |
| CM | Cartographic material; Configuration management |
| CMA | Census Metropolitan Area (Statistics Canada); Central Mapping Agency (New South Wales) |
| CMAS | Circular Mean Accuracy Standard |
| CMCC | California Mapping Coordinating Committee |
| CMD | Current meter digitizer; Command |
| CMEDS | Comprehensive Mapping and Engineering Data System (LES) |
| CMI | Corvallis Microtechnology Inc. |
| CMIB | Controlled multispectral image base |
| CMIS | Conical-scanning Microwave Imager/Sounder |
| CMM | Coalbed Methane Map (Wyoming State Geological Survey) |
| CMO | Canada Map Office |
| CMOTS | Cartographic Material Order and Tracking System (USGS) |
| CMP | Coastal Mapping Program; Camp |
| CMS | California Map Society; Clay Minerals Society |
| CMSA | Consolidated metropolitan statistical area |
| CMSDU | Commission on Map Use and Spatial Data Use (ICA) |
| CMSM | Committee on Marine Surveying and Mapping |
| CMT | Corvallis Microtechnology Inc. |
| C&MT | Communication & Measurement Technologies Ltd. |
| CMYK | Cyan-magenta-yellow-black |
| CNA | Comiss~ao Nacional do Ambiente (Portugal) |
| CNIDR | Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (USA) |
| CNES | Centre national d'etudes spatiales (France) |
| CNEXO | Centre National pour l'Exploitation des Oceans (France) |
| CNFL | Confluence |
| CNI | Coalition for Networked Information |
| CNIG | Centro Nacional de Informac~ao Geografica = Portuguese National Center for Geographic Information |
| CNR | Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (Italy); Canadian National Railway |
| CNRA | Commission on National and Regional Atlases (ICA) |
| CNRG | Centre National de Recherches Geomorphologiques (Belgium) |
| CNROA | Centro Nacional de Reconhecimento e Ordenamento Agrario (Portugal) |
| CNRS | Centre National de Recherches Scientifique (France) |
| CNRST | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique (Burkina Faso) |
| CNSTAT | Committee on National Statistics (U.S.) |
| Co. | Company; County |
| CO | Cartometric operations; Colorado |
| COBOL | Common Business Oriented Language |
| COBRIG | Council of British Geography |
| COE | Corps of Engineers |
| COEB | Coastal and Estuarine Oceanography Branch (US NOS) |
| COFPAES | Committee on the Federal Procurement of Architect and Engineer Services |
| COFRS | Chinese Operational Earth Resources Satellite |
| COG | Council of Governments |
| COGNA | Council of Geographic Names Authorities |
| COGO | Coordinate geometry |
| C.O.I. | Office of Coordinator of Information (U.S.) |
| col. | Color; colored |
| Col. | Colonel; Colorado |
| COL | Agricultural colony |
| COLD | Computer Output to Laser (optical) Disc |
| Com. | Committee; Commission; Commodore |
| COM | Component Object Model (Microsoft) |
| COMAP | Continuous area pattern mapping |
| Comdg. | Commanding |
| COMIS | Cartographic Operations Management Information System |
| COMPAS | Coastal Ocean Management, Planning and AssessmentSystem |
| COMSAT | Communications Satellite (Corp.) |
| CONAE | Comision nacional de actividades espaciales (Argentina) |
| CONC. | Concrete or reinforced concrete construction |
| Cong. | Congress |
| Conn. | Connecticut |
| CONRIM | Committee on Natural Resource Information Management(Alaska) |
| CONUS | Continental United States |
| CO-COPS | Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (NOAA) |
| COP/BOP | City of Portland Bureau of Planning |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| CORC | Cooperative Online Resource Catalog (OCLC) |
| Corp. | Corporal; Corporation |
| CORS | Continuously operated reference station(s); Continuously operating GPS reference stations |
| CORSE | Conference on Remote Sensing Education |
| COS | Central Office of Statistics (Malta) |
| COSMIC | Computer Software Management and Information Center |
| COSML | Committee on Southern Map Libraries |
| COSPAR | Committee on Space Research |
| COTS | Commercial-off-the-shelf |
| COVIS | Commonwealth of Virginia Information Systems |
| CP | Cartographic Perspectives (journal); color printer |
| CPFS | Colorado Plateau Field Station (USGS) |
| CPH | Cartographic Publishing House (China) |
| CPID | Composite ID |
| CPLAR | Community Perspectives on Land and Agrarian Reform (South Africa) |
| CPLC | Court of Private Land Claims |
| CPS | Characters per second; Contour plotting system; Cartographic production system |
| C.P.S.C.R.A.M. | Cum Privilegio Sacrae Caesareae Regiaeque Apostolicae Majestatis = With the privilege of the Holy Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty |
| CPSO | Cataloging Policy and Support Office (Library of Congress) |
| CPU | Central processing unit |
| CR | Central Region; Coordinate reader |
| CRA | Common Resource Area |
| CRADA | Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (U.S) |
| CRAG | Columbia Region Association of Governments |
| CRAIGES | Cartographic Reproduction and Interactive Graphic Editing System |
| CRBT | Centre de Recherches Biologiques Tropicales (Algeria) |
| CREPUQ | Conference des recteurs et des principaux des universites du Quebec |
| CRESP | Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (U.S.) |
| CRG | Centre de Recherche en Geomatique (Universite Laval) |
| CRIB | Computerized Resources Information Bank |
| CrIS | Cross-track Infrared Sounder (US)
|
| CRISTA | Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere |
| CRKT | Tidal creek |
| CRL | Cartographic research laboratory |
| CrlMSS | Cross-track Infrared and Microwave Sounding Suite |
| CrlS | Cross-track Infrared Sounder |
| CRM | Consejo de Recursos Minerales (Mexico); Customer relationship management |
| CRN | Canadian Road Network |
| CRPD | City Real Property Database |
| CRREL | Cold Region Research and Engineering Laboratories |
| CRTR | Crater |
| CRSA | Canadian Regional Science Association
|
| CRSC | California Remote Sensing Council |
| CRSS | Canadian Remote Sensing Society |
| CRT | Cathode ray tube |
| CS | Color scanner; Cubic splines |
| C.S. | Charles Simonneau |
| CSA | Canadian Space Agency |
| CSAA | California State Automobile Association |
| CSAC | Census Statistical Area Committee (U.S.) |
| CSAV | Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences |
| CSC | Computer Sciences Corporation; Commercial Space Center (NASA); Coastal Services Center (NOAA); California Surveying Corporation |
| CSDGM | Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata |
| CSDMS | Centre for Spatial Database Management and Solutions |
| CSFS | Colorado State Forest Service |
| CSG | Cartography Special Group, Assn. of American Geographers; Council of State Governments |
| CSIN | Computer Systems Information Network |
| CSIP | Continental Scale International Project |
| CSIR | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia) |
| CSIC | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Spain) |
| CSISS | Center for Spatially Integrated Social Sciences (UCSB) |
| CSML | Committee on Southern Map Libraries |
| CSOC | Consolidated Space Operations Center |
| CSP | Conformal Space projection |
| CSPA | Council of State Planning Agencies |
| CSPG | Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists |
| CSR | Center for Space Research (Univ. of Texas at Austin) |
| CSRS | Canadian Spatial Reference System |
| CSUF | California State University, Fresno |
| CSUN | California State University, Northridge |
| CST | Central Standard Time; Chicago Steel Tape Co.; Coast; Certified Survey Technician |
| Ct. | Court |
| CT | Census tract; Connecticut |
| CTA | Crafton, Tull & Associates |
| CTC | Cartoteca de Catalunya; Cooperating Technical Communities |
| CTCUQ | Commission de transport de la Communaute urbaine de Quebec |
| CTD | Chief, Topographic Division; Conductivity-temperature-depth |
| CTI | Critical Technologies Inst. (RAND Corp.) |
| CTL | Cartographic Technology Lab. |
| CTOG | Contour to Grid |
| CTS | Communications Technology Satellite (Canadian); Conventional terrestrial system |
| CUA | Canadian Underwriters' Association |
| CUAC | Cartographic Users Advisory Council (U.S.) |
| CUBE | Combined Uncertainty and Bathymetry Estimator |
| CUET | Cuesta |
| CUGiK | Centralny Urzad Geodezji i Kartografii (Poland) |
| CUR | Council on Undergraduate Research |
| CUSEC | Central United States Earthquake Consortium |
| CUSMAP | Conterminous United States Minerals Assessment Plan |
| CVO | Cascades Volcano Observatory (USGS) |
| CWHR | Califoria Wildlife Habitat Relationships |
| CWRA | Canadian Water Resources Program |
| CWS | Cartographic workstation |
| CYP | Cape York Peninsula |
| CYPLUS | Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy |
| CZCS | Coastal Zone Color Scanner |
| CZM | Coastal Zone Management (U.S. federal act of 1972) |
| C4G | Center for GeoInformatics (Louisiana State University) |
| D | Dwelling |
| DA | Data Acquisition; Dept. of the Army |
| D/A | Digital to Analog (converter) |
| DAAC | Div. des archives audiovisuelles et cartographiques, Archives nationales du Canada; Distributed Active Archive Center |
| DAAS | Defense Automatic Addressing System (USDMA) |
| DAASC | Defense Automated Addressing System Center (USDMA) |
| DAC | Digital-to-Analog Converter |
| DACA | Div. des archives cartographiques et audio-visuelles, Archives nationales du Canada |
| DACH | Deputy Assistant Chief Hydrologist |
| DADS | Digital Assisted Data Base System |
| DADSO | Data Access and Dissemination System Office (USBC) |
| DAESA | Dual Axis Fourier Shape Analysis |
| DAFIF | Digital Aeronautical Flight Information Files (NGA) |
| DAG | Directorate of Geographic Affairs (Lebanon) |
| DAIS-1 | Digital Airborne Imagery System (Space Imaging (Firm)) |
| DAISIDS | Distributed Ad-hoc Intelligent Sensor-Intrusion Detection System |
| DAL | Data Analysis Laboratory |
| DAM | Detection and mapping |
| DAMES | Defense Automated Message Exchange Service (USDMA) |
| DANE | Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (Colombia) |
| DAR | Data acquisition request |
| DARDC | Device for Automatic Remote Data Collection |
| DARO | Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (U.S.) |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (U.S.) |
| DAS | Delaware Assn. of Surveyors; Digial Aerial Solutions, LLC |
| DA&SM | Data Acquisitions & Systems Maintenance |
| DAT | Digital audio tape |
| DATIS | Digital Airborne Topographic Imaging System |
| DATPE | Direction de l'Amernagement du Territoire et de la Protection de l'Environnement (Haiti) |
| D.A.V. | Deutscher Alpenverein |
| DAVE-G | Dialogue Assisted Virtual Environment for Geoinformation |
| DB | Data base |
| DBB | Deutsche Bundesbahn |
| DBDB | Digital Bathymetry Data Base (U.S. government) |
| DBH | Diameter at breast height |
| DBI | Database Indexing; Database Interface |
| DBMS | Database management system |
| DBPPWG | Data Base Population Planning Working Group |
| DBPWG | Data Base Population Working Group |
| DBR | Dienst Bodemkartering (Suriname) |
| DBS | Data Base Specifications; Direct broadcast satellites |
| DC | District Chief; District of Columbia; Div. Chief; Dublin Core |
| D.C. | District of Columbia |
| DCA | Dept. of Community Affairs (Montana) |
| DC&A | Data Collection and Analysis |
| DCASS | Digital Cartographic Software System |
| DCDB | Digital Cartographic Data Base |
| DCDSTF | Digital Cartographic Data Standards Task Force (U.S.) |
| DCE | Data Communication Equipment; Distributed Computing Environment |
| DCF | Digital Cartographic File |
| DCHUM | Digital Chart Update Manual (USDMA) |
| DCI | Differential Corrections, Inc.; Director of Central Intelligence |
| DCMI | Dublin Core Metadata Initiative |
| DCN | Direccion de Cartografia Nacional (Venezuela); Document control number |
| DCP | Dept. of city planning; Digital Cartographic Production; Data collection platform |
| DCPS | Digital Cartographic Production Segment |
| DCR | Design Concept Review |
| DCRM | Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials |
| DCS | Digital Cartography Section; Digital color separate; Directorate of Colonial Surveys (U.K.); Data collection system; Digital Cartographic Studio |
| DCSE | Diba Consulting Software Engineers |
| DCS/RSE | Data collection system receiving site equipment |
| DCST | Data collection system tape |
| DCT | Direction Topographique et du Cadastre (Congo) |
| DCW | Digital Chart of the World (USDMA) |
| DD | Data dictionary; Dewey Decimal; Decimal degrees |
| DDA | Data descriptive area |
| DDAC | Deutscher Automobil-Club |
| DDC | Dewey Decimal classification; Digital data conversion |
| DDCMP | Digital Data Communication Message Protocol |
| DDES | Digital Data Editing System |
| DDF | Data descriptive file |
| DDG | La direction des documents gouvernementaux (La Bibliotheque et des Archives du Canada) |
| DDI | Design Data Inc. |
| DDIS | Depository Distribution Information System (USGPO) |
| DDL | Data Definition Language |
| DDM | Documents Data Miner; Digital Distance Model |
| DDN | Defense Data Network |
| DDPO | Defense Dissemination Program Office (U.S.) |
| DDPS | Desktop Digital Photogrammetry System (3D Mapper Pty. Ltd.) |
| DDR | Data descriptive record |
| DDS | Digital Data Storage |
| DDTI | Digital Data Technologies, Inc.
|
| DE | Data extraction; Delaware |
| DEA | David Evans and Associates, Inc.
|
| dec. | Declination |
| DEC | Digital Equipment Corp. |
| DED | Data Element Dictionary |
| DE-DEM | Drainage-Enforced DEM |
| DEIS | Draft environmental impact statement |
| del. | Delineation; delineator |
| Del. | Delaware |
| delt. | Delineator |
| DEM | Digital Elevation Model; Digital elevation matrix |
| DEM-G | Digital Elevation Model--Graphic (coordinates) |
| DEM-P | Digital Elevation Model--Planar (coordinates) |
| DEMR | Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada |
| DEMVFY | Digital Elevation Model Verify (verification software) |
| Dep. | Deputy; Departement |
| DEP | Dept. of Environmental Protection |
| Dept. | Department |
| DES | Digital Editing Station |
| DE/S | Data Extraction Segment |
| DESI | Diversified Energy Services, Inc. |
| DFAD | Digital Feature Analysis Data (U.S. government) |
| DFC | Digital Futures Coalition |
| DFG | Dept. of Fish and Game |
| DFLIP | Digital Flight Information Publication |
| DFIRM | Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map |
| DFO | Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans (Canada) |
| DFW | Dept. of Fish and Wildlife |
| DGC | Direct Geodetic Constraint (software) |
| DGCM | Direct Geodetic Constraint Method |
| DGDF | Digital Geospatial Data Files |
| DGEC | Direccion General de Estadistica y Censos (Costa Rica) |
| DGF | Dept. of Game and Fish |
| DGG | Direccion General de Geografia (Mexico) |
| DGGM | Direccion General de Geologia y Minas (Colombia) |
| DGGS | Div. of Geological and Geophysical Surveys (Alaska); Directorate General of Geological Surveys (Iraq) |
| DGI | Direktorat Geologi (Indonesia) |
| DGIAI | Direccion General de Integracion y Analisis de la Informacion (Mexico) |
| DGIS | Direct Graphics Interface Standard |
| DGIWG | Digital Geographic Information Working Group |
| DGfK | Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Kartographie |
| DGK 5 | Deutsche Grundkarte 1:5 000 |
| DGM | Div. des Gites Mineraux de l'Assn. Geologique du Canada; Direction de la Geologie et des Mines (Burkina Faso); Direccion General de Mineria (Dominican Republic) |
| DGMG | Direccion General de Minas y Geologia (Venezuela) |
| DGMP | Direccion de Geologia, Minas y Petrolio (Costa Rica) |
| DGN | Domestic geographic name |
| DGNR | Domestic Geographic Names Report (U.S.) |
| DGO | Direccion General de Oceanografia (Mexico) |
| DGP | Digital Graphic Product |
| DGPA | Direccion General de la Produccion Agraria (Spain) |
| DGPS | Differential Global Positioning System; Differential Global Positioning Satellite |
| DGRM | Direccion General de Recursos Minerales (Panama) |
| DGS | Dept. of Geological Survey (Botswana); Delaware Geological Survey |
| DGSE | Dept. of Geological Survey and Exploration (Burma) |
| DGU | Danmarks Geologiske Undersogelse |
| DH | Drill hole |
| D.H. | Double hydrant |
| DHI | Deutsches Hydrographisches Institut; Defense Hydrographic Initiative (USDMA) |
| DHN | Directoria de Hidrografia e Navegac~ao (Brazil) |
| DI | Data Integration; Digital image |
| DIA | Defence Intelligence Agency (U.S.); Dept. of Indian Affairs; Dept. of International Affairs |
| DIAL | Digital Image Analysis Laboratory (Univ. of Arizona); Differential Absorption LiDAR (Optech) |
| diam. | Diameter |
| DIAM | Defense Intelligence Agency Manual |
| DiAP | Digital Image Analytical Plotter (ISM) |
| DID | Data information delivery; Data information description; Digital Image Data |
| DIDS | Digital Information Display System (U.S.) |
| DIELOG | DAASC Integrated E-Mail Logistics System (USDMA) |
| DIES | Digital Image Enhancement System |
| DIF | Data Integration Function; Data Interchange Format; Display Information Facility; Document Interchange Format (U.S. Navy) |
| difSAR | Differential SAR |
| DIGCAT | Digital Catalog |
| DIGEST | Digital Geographic Information Exchange Standard |
| DIGIT | Digitally Integrated Geographic Information Technologies (laboratory, Univ. of Utah Geography Dept.) |
| DILIGENT | Digital Library Infrastructure on Grid Enabled Technology (EC) |
| DIM | Digital Image Matching |
| DIME | Dual Independent Map Encoding (U.S. Bureau of the Census) |
| DIN | Deutsches Institut fur Normung |
| Dinageca | Direcc~ao Nacional de Geografia e Cadastro (Mozambique) |
| DINO | Data in Ontario (organization) |
| DIP | Data Integration Program |
| DIPS | Digital Image Processing System |
| DIRS | Digital Image Rectification/Registration System |
| DIS | Distributed Information System; Draft International Standard (ISO) |
| DISGIS | Distributed Geographical Information Systems |
| DISHIDROS | Dinas Hidro Oceanografi (Indonesia) |
| Dist. | District |
| DISTDAHS | Distributed Satellite Telemetry Data Handling System |
| Div. | Division |
| DKDGS | Det Kongelige Danske Geografiske Selskab |
| DL | Data logging |
| DLA | Diffusion-limited aggregation |
| DLCW | Department of Land and Water Conservation (NSW) |
| DLG | Digital Line Graph |
| DLG-E | Digital Line Graph--Enhanced |
| DLGF | Digital Line Graph--Framework |
| DLG-O | Digital Line Graph--Optional |
| DLG2DEM | Digital Line Graph to Digital Elevation Model (production software) |
| DLG-3 | Digital Line Graph--level 3 |
| DLI | Digital Library Initiative (U.S.); Data Liberation Initiative (Canada); Dept. of Land Information |
| DLL | Windows Dynamic Link Library |
| DLMS | Digital Landmass System |
| DLNR | Dept. of Land and Natural Resources |
| DLO | Document-like object |
| DLR | Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. |
| DLS | Dominion Land Survey (Canada); Dept. of Lands and Survey (Guyana); Dept. of Lands and Surveys (Cyprus) |
| DLT | Digital linear tape |
| DLWC | Dept. of Land and Water Conservation (Australia) |
| DM | Departamento de Minas (Honduras); Data mining |
| DMA | Defense Mapping Agency (U.S.); Designated Market Areas (USBC TIGER) |
| DMAAC | Defense Mapping Agency Aerospace Center |
| DMAFF | Defense Mapping Agency Feature File; Defense Mapping Agency Feature Format |
| DMAHTC | Defense Mapping Agency Hydrographic Topographic Center |
| DMAIAGS | Defense Mapping Agency Inter-American Geodetic Survey |
| DMAODS | Defense Mapping Agency Office of Distribution Services |
| DMASPOEM | Defense Mapping Agency Special Program Office for Exploitation Modernization |
| DMA TC | Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center (U.S.) |
| DMATC | Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center (U.S.) |
| DMAUSE | DMA Utility Software Environment (USDMA) |
| DMC | Disaster Monitoring Constellation (BNSC) |
| DMCA | Digital Millenium Copyright Act |
| DME | Distance measuring equipment; Dept. of Mines and Energy (Nova Scotia) |
| DMGIS | Data, Map and Government Information Services (Univ. of Toronto Library) |
| DMI | Digital Mapping, Inc. |
| DMMG | Direccion Nacional de Mineria y Geologia (Uruguay) |
| DMMR | Deputy Ministry for Mineral Resources (Saudi Arabia) |
| DMP | Digital Map Products (Firm) |
| DMR | Dept. of Mineral Resources (New South Wales) |
| DMRS | Data Management and Retrieval System |
| DMRT | Dept. of Mineral Resources of Thailand |
DMS
| Data Management System; Desktop Mapping System (R-WEL, Inc.); Drawing Management System; Defense Mapping School (USDMA); Defense Message System (USDoD); Distribution Management System; Degrees, minutes, seconds |
| DMSI | Data Management Segment Interface Control Document |
| DMSO | Defense Mapping School Operations Office (USDMA) |
| DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
| DMTI | Desktop Mapping Technologies Inc. |
| DMU | Defense Mapping Unit (Singapore) |
| DMW | Daft, McCune, Walker |
| DN | Digital Number |
| DNC | Digital Nautical Chart |
| DNPM | Departamento Nacional de Produc~ao Mineral (Brazil) |
| DNPCT | Direction National de Production Cartographique et Topographique (Mali) |
| DNR | Dept. of Natural Resources |
| DNRC | Dept. of Natural Resources and Conservation (Montana) |
| DNREP | Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection (Kentucky) |
| DNT | Direccion Nacional de Topografia (Uruguay) |
| DNR | Dept. of Natural Resources |
| Do. | Ditto (the same) |
| DO | Digital Ortho; District office |
| DOA | Dept. of Agriculture |
| Doc. | Document |
| DOC | Dept. of Commerce |
| DOD | Dept. of Defense |
| DOE | Dept. of Energy |
| DOGAMI | Dept. of Geology and Mineral Industries (Oregon) |
| DOH | Dept. of Health |
| DOI | Dept. of the Interior; Digital object identifier; Document object identifier |
| DOM | Document Object Model |
| DOMSAT | Domestic Communications Satellite System |
| DOQ | Digital orthophoto quadrangle |
| DOQQ | Digital orthophoto quarter quadrangle |
| DORIS | Decision-Oriented Resource Information System (Ventura County, Calif.); Doppler obitography and radiopositioning integrated by satellite |
| DOS | Directorate of Overseas Surveys (U.K.); Dept. of State; Digital Orthophoto System; Disc Operating System |
| DOSLI | Dept. of Survey and Land Information (New Zealand) |
| DOT | Dept. of Transportation |
| DP | Data production; Digital Photogrammetry |
| DPE | Data processing environment; data processing equipment |
| DPED | Dept. of Planning and Economic Development |
| dpi | Dots per inch |
| DPI | Dots per inch |
| DPIE | Dept. of Primary Industries and Energy (Australia) |
| DPL | Data Programming Language |
| DPMA | Data Processing Management Assn. |
| DPPDB | Digital Point Positioning Data Base |
| DPS | DEM Production System; Digital Production System (USDMA) |
| Dpt. | Department |
| DPW | Dept. of public works |
| DPWS | Digital Photogrammetric Work Station |
| DQDB | Distributed-Queue Dual Buses |
| DQQ | Digital Quarter Quadrangle |
| Dr. | Drive |
| DR | Data record(s); Direct Reflex (Trimble) |
| DRC | Democratic Republic of Congo |
| DRBC | Delaware River Basin Commission |
| DRF | Digital Raster File |
| DRG | Digital Raster Graphic; Davey Resource Group |
| DRGM | Direction des Recherches gologiques et minires (Niger) |
| DRGP | Digital Representation of Graphic Products |
| DRGS | Direct Readout Ground Station |
| DRIS | Digital Research and Instructional Services (Univ. of Virginia) |
| DRO | Digital Revision Overlay |
| DS | Digital subsystem |
| D.S. | District Surveyor |
| DSD | Digital Sailing Directions |
| DSDP | Deep Sea Drilling Project |
| DSF | Delivery sequence file (U.S. Postal Service) |
| DSGM | Direcc~ao de Servicos de Geologia e Minas (Angola); Direccion del Servicio Geografico Militar (Paraguay) |
| DSGZ | Dept. of the Surveyor General (Zimbabwe) |
| DSIR | Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research (Australia, New Zealand) |
| DSL | Dept. of Surveys and Lands (Botswana); Data Service Laboratory |
| DSM | Directorate of Surveys and Mapping (South Africa); Digital stereo model; Digital surface model |
| DSN | Deep Space Network; Dataset Name; Data source name |
| DSNP | Dassault-Sercel NP |
| DSP | Dept. of State Planning; Depository Services Program (Canada) |
| DSPW | Digital Photogrammetric Workstation (USCE) |
| DSS | Digital Sensor System (EMERGE) |
| DS/S | Data Services Segment |
| DSSSL | Document Style Semantic and Specification Language |
| DSU | Digital Standard Update |
| DTAD | Digital Terrain Analysis Data |
| DTD | Digital Terrain Data; Document Type Definition |
| DTED | Digital Terrain Elevation Data (U.S. government) |
| DTG | Digital tape generation |
| DTM | Digital Terrain Model (or Modeling) |
| DTOP | Digital Topographic Data |
| DTS | Digital transmission system |
| DTSS-P | Digital Topographic Support System Prototype |
| DTW | Desk-top Workstation |
| DUMC | Dutch Union Map Catalogue |
| DV | Daily Value |
| DVD | Digital video disc; Digital versatile disc |
| DVNP | Death Valley National Park |
| DVP | Digital Video Plotter |
| DW | Data warehousing |
| DWD | Deutscher Wetterdienst |
| DWF | Drawing Web Format |
| DWM | Digital Web Map (Idaho Geological Survey) |
| DWR | Dept. of Water Resources |
| DXF | Drawing Interchange File; Digital Exchange Format |
| DXM | Data eXchange Manager |
| DySIS | Dynamic Software and Integrated Solutions, Inc. |
| D-2 | National Interest Lands, Section D-2, Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act |
| D3 | Digital Design Data |
| E | East; Electronic; Elevator (open); Einwohner = inhabitant |
| EA | Environmental assessment |
| EAC | Engineering Accreditation Commission (ABET) |
| EAF | East African Force (UK) |
| EAFS | Effective Aerial Film Speed |
| EAOS | Environment Australia Online Service |
| EAP | Environmental Affairs Program |
| Earthsat | Earth Satellite Corp. |
| EAS-E | Engineering and Survey-Exchange |
| EBAMCO | Electronic Book and Map Company |
| EBCDIC | Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code |
| EBR | Electron Beam Recorder |
| EBRPD | East Bay Regional Park District (California) |
| EBX | Electronic book exchange |
| EC | Electronic control; European Community; European Commission |
| ECAI | Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative |
| ECDIS | Electronic Chart Display and Information System (U.S.) |
| ECE | E. Coyote Enterprises |
| ECEF | EarthCentered EarthFixed |
| ECI | Election Commission of India |
| ECPD | Engineering Council for Professional Development |
| ECRF | Earth Centered Reference Frame |
| ECS | Electronic Charting Systems (NOAA) |
| Ed. | Editor; edition |
| ED | Elevation data; Enumeration district |
| E.D. | Eastern District |
| EDA | Electronic design automation; Exploratory data analysis |
| EDC | EROS Data Center (LIA); Electronic digital computer; Environmental Data Center (California) |
| EDD | Environmental Data Directory (Australia) |
| EDGE | Energy Data Geographical Explorer (Petroconsultants, Inc.) |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange; Electronic Devices Inc. |
| EDIES | EROS Digital Image Enhancement Systems |
| EDIFACT | Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport |
| EDINA | Edinburgh Data and Information Access |
| EDIPS | EROS Digital Image Processing System |
| EDIS | Environmental Data and Information Service; Electrical Distribution Information System (Santee Cooper) |
| EDITOR | ERTS Data Interpretation and Tenex Operations Recorder |
| EDM | Electronic distance measurement; Electronic distance meter |
| EDMAS | Environmental Dose Modeling and Analysis System |
| EDMI | Electronic distance measuring instrument(s) |
| EDMS | Electronic document management system(s) |
| EDP | Electronic data processing |
| EDS | Electronic Data Systems Corp.; Engineering Design System; Environmental Data Service (NOAA) |
| EDT | Eastern Daylight Time |
| EdUC | Education User Conference (ESRI) |
| EEC | European Economic Community |
| EEZ | Exclusive Economic Zone |
| E.F. | Eisenbahnfaehre |
| EFFIS | European Forest Fire Information System |
| EGA | Enhanced Graphics Adaptor |
| EGII | European Geographic Information Infrastructure |
| EGIS | European GIS |
| EGNOS | European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service |
| EGS | European Geophysical Society; Economic geology series |
| EGSMA | Geological Survey and Mining Authority (Egypt) |
| EHS | Extremely hazardous materials |
| EIGS | Ethiopian Inst. of Geological Survey |
| EIM | Environmental information management |
| eingesch. | eingeschossig |
| eis. | eisern = iron |
| EIS | Environmental Impact Statement; Environmental information system |
| Eisb. Brck. | Eisenbahnbrucke = Railroad bridge |
| EIWG | Earth Imaging Working Group |
| ELC | End of line code |
| ELMO | Electronic Map Ordering |
| El.W. | Elektrizitatswerk = electric power station |
| EM | Electromagnetic |
| E.M. | Mining Engineer |
| EMA | Environmental Management Agency; Ethopian Mapping Authority |
| EMAIL | Electronic Mail |
| EMAP | Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (U.S. EPA) |
| EMC | Eastern Mapping Center (USGS) |
| EMF | Enhanced Meta Files (Windows) |
| EMIP | European Market for Infrastructural Projects |
| EMMMA | Environmental Mercury Mapping, Modeling and Analysis |
| EMPS | Elevation Matrix Processing System |
| EMR | Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada; Electromagnetic radiation |
| EMS | Electromagnetic spectrum; Engineering Mapping Solutions (Firm) |
| ENC | Electronic Navigational Charts (NOAA) |
| E.N.E. | East-northeast |
| Eng. Dept. | Engineering Dept.; Dept. of Engineers |
| Engr. Bn. | Engineer Battalion |
| ENIAC | Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer |
| ENID | Endnote ID |
| E-N&N | Electronic News and Notes (WAML) |
| ENSG | Ecole Nationale des Sciences Geographiques |
| ENTR | Entrance |
| entw. | Entworfen = Drawn |
| entworf. | Entworfen = Drawn |
| ENVISAT | Environmental Satellite |
| EO | Earth observation |
| EOCAP | Earth Observations Commercial Applications Program |
| EODMS | Earth Observations Data Management Systems |
| EOF | End of File |
| EOS | Earth Observing System; Greek National Mountaineering Assn. |
| EOSAT | Earth Observation Satellite (Company) |
| EOSDIS | Earth Observing System Data and Information System |
| EOT | End of Text |
| EOTD | Enhanced observed time difference |
| EP | End Point |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.) |
| EPB | Earth Physics Branch (Canada) |
| EPI | Electronic Position Indicator |
| EPIRB | Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon |
| EPS | Encapsulated PostScript |
| ERA | Electric Records Archives (NARA) |
| ERBS | Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (or Sensor) |
| ERCE | Groupe d'Etudes de Recherches Critiques d'Espace (Universite du Quebec, Montreal) |
| ERDAS | Earth Resources Data Analysis System |
| ERDC | Earth Resources Data Center (ERIM); Engineer Research and Development Center (USACE) |
| ERDL | Engineer Research and Development Laboratories |
| EREP | Earth Resources Experiment Package (Skylab) |
| ERIM | Environmental Research Inst. of Michigan |
| ERIN | Earth Resources Information Network; Environmental Resource Information Network (Australia) |
| ERIS | Earth Resources Inventory System; Earth Resources Infomation System |
| ERL | Environmental Research Laboratories (NOAA); Earth Resources Laboratory (NASA) |
| ERLAS | Earth Resources Laboratory Application Software |
| ERM | Earth Resource Mapping (Firm) |
| EROS | Earth Resources Observation Satellite; Earth Resources Observation System |
| ERP | Enterprise resource planning |
| ERPANET | Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network |
| ERRSAC | Eastern Regional Remote Sensing Applications Center (NASA) |
| ERS | Earth Remote Sensing (satellite) |
| ERSAC | Environmental Remote Sensing Applications Centre (United Arab Emirates) |
| ERSAL | Environmental Remote Sensing Analysis Laboratory (Oregon State Univ.) |
| ERSAR | Earth Resources Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| ERSC | Egyptian Remote Sensing Center |
| ERSP | Epipolar Rectified Stereo Pair |
| ERTS | Earth Resources Technology Satellite |
| ERSUN | Environmental Remote Sensing Unit (British Aerospace Space Systems, Ltd.) |
| ESA | Egyptian Survey Authority; European Space Agency; Earth Sciences Associates |
| ESC | European Seismological Commission |
| ESCAP | Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific |
| ESD | Engineering Services Dept. (Qatar) |
| ESDA | Earth Sciences Data Standards (council); Exploratory spatial data analysis |
| ESDD | Earth Science Data Directory (USGS) |
| ESDI | Earth Science Data Interface |
| ESE | Earth Science Enterprise |
| E.S.E. | East-southeast |
| ESEM | Earth Systems Engineering and Management
|
| ESI | EagleScan Inc.; Enironmental Sensitivity Index |
| ESIC | Earth Science Information Center (USGS); Earth Sciences Information Centre (Canada) |
| ESIG | Exemplary Systems in Government award (URISA) |
| ESIM | Earth Science Information Manager |
| ESIN | Earth Science Information Network |
| ESIO | Earth Science Information Office |
| ESIP | Earth Science Information Partners |
| ESIS | Earth Science Information System |
| ESL | Electromagnetic Systems Laboratories, Inc. |
| ESMI | European Spatial Metadata Infrastructure |
| ESR | Engineering Surveys Reproduction Ltd. |
| ESRI | Environmental Systems Research Inst., Inc. |
| ESSA | Environmental Science Service Administration |
| ESSC | Earth System Science Center (Pennsylvania State Univ.) |
| ESSI | Earth Search Sciences Inc. |
| ESSIC | Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (Univ. of Maryland) |
| E. St. | Eisenbahn Station = railway station |
| EST | Eastern Standard Time |
| ES&T | Environmental Science and Technology |
| ESV | EarthSystemsVisualizer |
| ET | Frame enclosed elevator with self-closing traps |
| ETF | European Transfer Format |
| ETL | Engineer Topographic Laboratories (USCE); Extract, transform, load |
| ETM | Enhanced Thematic Mapper |
| ETM+ | Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus |
| EU | European Union |
| EUB | Alberta Energy and Utilities Board |
| EUROGI | European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information |
| EVC | East View Cartographic (Firm) |
| EVI | Enhanced vegetation index |
| EVO | Ernst Volker (Oldenburg, Germany) |
| EWP | Executive Wilderness Programmes |
| Ex. doc. | Executive document |
| F | Fahrenheit; Flat |
| FA | Fire alarm box |
| FAA | Federal Aviation Administration (U.S.) |
| FAAT | Fully Analytical Aerotriangulation |
| FAC | Feature analysis code(s) |
| FACC | Feature and Attribute Coding Catalog |
| FACE | Field Ancillary Computer Effort |
| FACM | Florida Assn. of Cadastral Mappers |
| FACS | Feature Attribute Coding Standard; Feature Attribute Coding System |
| Fahrb. | Fahrbahn = roadway |
| FAO | Food and Agricultural Organization (United Nations) |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Question(s) |
| FARC | Federal Archives and Record Center |
| FAS | Foreign Agricultural Service(USDA) |
| FAST | Faceted Application of Subject Terminology |
| Fb. | Fabrik = Factory |
| FB | Freytag-Berndt und Artaria |
| FBN | Federal base network (U.S.) |
| FC | Field component; Field completion |
| FCC | False color composite; Federal Communications Commission (U.S.) |
| FCM | Feature change map |
| FCT | Forestry Commission Tasmania |
| FCW | Federal Computer Week (journal) |
| FDDI | Fiber Digital Data Interface |
| FDEP | Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection |
| FDIS | Formal Draft International Standard (ISO) |
| FDLP | Federal Depository Library Program (US GPO) |
| FDLS | Fiji Dept. of Lands and Survey |
| FDPP | Framework Demonstration Projects Program (FGDC) |
| FE | Feature extraction; Field engineer; Frame enclosed elevator |
| F.E. | Forest Engineer |
| fe. | Fecit (maker) |
| FEAT | Alternate Feature Identification Code |
| fec. | Fecit (maker) |
| FED | Field-emission displays |
| FedUC | Federal User Conference (ESRI) |
| FEE | Feature Extraction Environment |
| FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Agency (U.S.) |
| FEP | Feature Extraction Processor |
| FES | Feature Extraction Segment |
| FESWMS | Finite Element Surface Water Model System |
| FEWS | Feature Extraction Workstation |
| FGCC | Federal Geodetic Control Committee (U.S.) |
| FGCS | Federal Geodetic Control Subcommittee (U.S.) |
| FGDC | Federal Geographic Data Committee (U.S.) |
| FGEF | Federal Geographic Exchange Format (U.S.) |
| F.G.S. | Fellow of the Geological Society |
| FGS | Florida Geological Survey |
| FGT | Federal Geographic Technology (U.S.) |
| FH | Field headquarters |
| FHA | Federal Highway Administration (U.S.) |
| FHWA | Federal Highway Administration (U.S.) |
| FICCDC | Federal Interagency Coordinating Committee on Digital Cartography (U.S.) |
| FIG | Federation Internationale des Geom`etres = International Federation of Surveyors |
| FII | Fundacion Instituto de Ingeneiria |
| FILS | Federal Government Information Locator System |
| FIPS | Federal Information Processing Standard(s); Flagstaff Image Processing System |
| FIRM | Flood Rate Insurance Map |
| FIRMS | Flood Rate Insurance Maps |
| FL | Florida; Focal length; Function libraries |
| Fla. | Florida |
| FLHO | Federal Lands Highway Office (U.S.) |
| FLIMAP | Fast Laser Imaging Mapping and Profiling (system) |
| FLIP | Flight Information Publication (NGA) |
| FLIR | Forward-looking Infrared |
| FLL | Waterfall |
| FLOPS | Floating Point Operations per Second |
| FM | Facilities management; Field manual |
| F.M. | Field Marshall |
| FMC | Federal Maritime Commission (U.S.) |
| FMCSA | Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (US) |
| FME | Feature Manipulation Engine (Safe Software Inc.) |
| FMGIS | Flight management geographic information system |
| FMLIS | Federal Mineral Lands Information System |
| FMP | Field Pack Mobile Professional (All Points Software) |
| FMS | Facility Mapping Systems Inc.; Flight Managing System |
| FMS/AC | Facility Mapping System for AutoCAD |
| FNC | Foreign Names Committee (USBGN) |
| FNESA | Federation of New England Surveyors Assn.s |
| FNIB | Foreign Names Information Bulletin |
| FNMOC | Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (U.S.) |
| FO | Field office |
| F.O. | Field Officer; Foreign Office |
| FOC | Full operational capability |
| FOF | Filtering optical fiber |
| FOGs | Fiber Optic Gyros |
| FOM | Field Operations Manual |
| FORTRAN | Formula Translation (computer language) |
| FOUO | For official use only |
| FOV | Field of view |
| FPC | Federal Power Commission; Federal Publishers Committee |
| FPT | Full production training |
| FPU | Floating point unit |
| FRA | Federal Railroad Administration (U.S.) |
| FRAP | Fire and Resource Assessment Program (Calif. Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection) |
| FRBR | Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (IFLA) |
| FRC | Federal Records Center (U.S.) |
| F.R.G.S. | Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society |
| FRI | Forest Resource Inventory Map (Ontario) |
| FRM | Farm |
| FRP | Federal Radio-navigation Plan |
| F.R.S. | Fellow of the Royal Society |
| FS | Fire station; Forest Service (U.S.); Federal Survey Div. (Nigeria) |
| FSA | Farm Service Agency (USDA) |
| FSLUPC | Federal/State Land Use Planning Commission for Alaska |
| FSMS | Florida Surveying and Mapping Society |
| FSO | Field Support Office (U.S. Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories) |
| FSPLS | Florida Society of Professional Land Surveyors |
| FSR | Flight Summary Report |
| FSRAMIS | Forest Service Range Management Information System |
| FT | Field terminator |
| FTA | Federal Transit Administration (US) |
| Fth. | Fathom |
| FTL | Future Temporal Logic |
| FTM | Foiben Taosarintanin' i Madagasikara |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| FU | Field unit |
| Fur. | Furlong |
| Fw. | Fussweg = Footpath |
| FWPCA | Federal Water Pollution Control Administration (U.S.) |
| FWS | Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.) |
| FYROM | Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
| FZDS | Flood Zone Determination Services |
| G | Geometry |
| G&M | Geography and Map; geography and Map Div. |
| G&O | Greenhorne & O'Mara Inc. |
| Ga. | Georgia |
| GA | Georgia; Geographic access; Geographical Association |
| GAC | Geological Assn. of Canada; Global Area Composite; Geospatial Advisory Committee (USFS) |
| GAF | Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Fernerkundung |
| GAP | Gap Analysis Program (USNBS); Geographic Application Program |
| GAT | Geography Assn. of Thailand |
| GB | Gigabyte; Geologische Bundesanstalt (Austria) |
| GBA | GeoBusiness Assn.; George Butler Associates, Inc. |
| GBAMS | GBS Master Series, Inc. |
| GBAUG | Greater Boston Autodesk User Group |
| GBf | Guterbahnhof = freight depot |
| GBF | Geographic Base File |
| GBFP | Georgia Basin Futures Project (Digital Library) |
| GBI | Green biomass index |
| GBIS | Geo-Based Information System; Global Business Intelligence Solutions (IBM) |
| Gbo. | Grabador = engraver |
| GBS | Geograpic Base System |
| GCCS | Global Command, Control System (USDMA) |
| GCDB | Geographic Coordinate Data Base (U.S.) |
| GCDIS | Global Change Data and Information System |
| GCG | Geocartographics Subdivison (Canada) |
| GCHC | Gulf Coast Hydroscience Center (U.S.) |
| GCLI | GIS in Canadian Libraries Initiative |
| GCM | General circulation model; Global climate model; General Command of Mapping (Turkey) |
| GCMC | Geospatial Center and Map Collection (Ball State University) |
| GCP | Ground control point(s); Geodetic control point(s) |
| GCRA | Geographic and Cartographic Research and Applications Section |
| GCRS | Gulf Centre for Remote Sensing (Firm) |
| GCSS | Global Combat Support System |
| GCT | Greenwich Civil Time |
| GCTP | General Coordinate Transformation Package (software); Geographic Coordinate Transformation Package (software) |
| GD | Geologic Div. (USGS); Geospatial data; Graphic digitization |
| GDA | Geographic Data Analysis System |
| GDC | Geographic Data Council |
| GDD | Graphics Data Display Manager; GIS Data Depot |
| GDDD | Geographical Data Description Directory |
| GDE | Graphic Developer's Engine (FCAD Software, Inc.) |
| GDF | Geographic data file |
| GDHS | Ground Data Handling System (GFSC) |
| GDM | Geospatial data management |
| GDN | Geography Discipline Network |
| GDS | Graphic Data Systems Corp; Grumman Data Systems; Geo-Data System; Geographic Data Service (U.S.) |
| GDT | Geographic Data Technology Inc. |
| GDTA | Groupement pour le Developpement de la Teledetection Aerospatiale (France) |
| GE | General Electric; Geographic equivalent; Google Earth |
| GEBCO | General bathymetric chart of the oceans = Carte generale bathymetrique des oceans |
| GECCo | Geospatially Enabling Community Collaboration (program, GITA) |
| GEDS | General Environmental Data Base System (Florida) |
| GEGMR | General Establishment of Geology and Mineral Resources (Syria) |
| GEM | Graphical Environment Manager |
| GEMS | Global Environment Monitoring System; GeoMap Society |
| GEO | Geospatial Metadata Application Profile (USA); Geostationary Earth orbit |
| GEOBAL | Servicio Geologico de Bolivia |
| GEO-CAT | Geographic catalog of political and statistical areas |
| Geocorr | Geographic Correspondence Engine |
| GEODESY | Geospatial Data and Exploration System (Harvard Univ.) |
| Geog. | Geography |
| Geol. | Geology |
| GEOLAN | Geological (survey) local area network |
| GEOREF | Geological Reference (system) |
| GEOS | Geodynamics Experimental Ocean Satellite |
| GEOSAT | Geodesy Satellite |
| GEOSEC | Geographic Security |
| GeoTMS | Geographic Town Management System (Des Lauriers & Assoc. Inc.) |
| GEOZAVOD | Zavod za Geoloska i Geofizicksa Istrazivanja (Yugoslavia) |
| Ges. | Gesamt- |
| GES | Geographic Entry System |
| gest. | Gestechen = Engraved |
| gez. | Gezeichnet = Designed |
| GFDL | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (U.S.) |
| GFOSS | Geospatial Free and Open Source Software |
| GGBR | Golden Gate Biosphere Reserve (Calif.) |
| GGMC | Guyana Geology and Mines Commission |
| GGNRA | Golden Gate National Recreation Area (Calif.) |
| GGRF | Galileo Geodetic Reference Frame |
| GGS | Georgia Geologic Survey |
| GGU | Gronlands Geologiske Undersogelse |
| GI | Geographic information; Geospatial information |
| GIA | Geographic information analysis; Geographic information and analysis; GPS International Assn.; Geomatics Industry Association |
| GIAA | Geometrics Industry Assn. of America |
| GIAC | Geomatics Industry Assn. of Canada; Geographic Information Advisory Council (Kentucky) |
| GIAL | Geographic Information and Analysis Laboratory (State Univ. of New York, Buffalo) |
| GIB | Geographic Information Board (Florida); Geomagnetic Indices Bulletin; G.I. Barnett & Son |
| GICC | Geographic Information Coordinating Committee (Colorado) |
| GICS | Geographic Identification Code Scheme |
| GID | Geodaetisk Institut (Denmark) |
| GIDW | General inverse-distance weighted interpolation model |
| .GIF | Graphics Interchange File; Graphics Interchange Format |
| GIFTS | Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer |
| GIG | Geologic Inquiries Group |
| GILS | Government Information Locator Service |
| GIMS | Geographic Information Management Systems Committee (ASCM/ASPRS) |
| GINIE | Geographic Information Network in Europe
|
| GIO | Geographic Information Officer; Geographic Investigations Office (USGS); Geospatial Information Office (USGS) |
| GIPS | Generalized Image Processing Sytstem |
| GIR | Geographic information retrieval |
| GIRAS | Geographic Information Retrieval and Analysis System (USGS) |
| GIS | Geographic(al) information system(s); Geohydrologic Information System; Geoscience Information Society; Global Indexing System |
| GISCI | GIS Certification Institute |
| GISCO | Geographic Information System of the European Commission |
| GISDEX | Federal Geographic Information and Spatial Data Exposition and Conference (U.S.) |
| GIScience | Geographic information science |
| GISIC | Geographical Information Systems International Group |
| GISMO | GIS MOdeling (ERDAS) |
| GISOM | Generating Information and Scanning Ohio Maps (Ohio State Univ. Center for Mapping) |
| GISS | Goddard Institude of Space Studies |
| GIST | Geographic Information System for Transportation |
| GIT | Geomatics information technology; General Information Technology; Global Imaging Technologies (Firm) |
| GITA | Geospatial Information & Technology Assn. |
| GITC | Geomatics Information Trading Center |
| GIU | Geographic Information Unit (US Dept. of State) |
| GIV | Geologic Information Visualization (software) |
| GKP | Geodeticky a Kartograficky Podnik v Praze |
| GKS | Graphics Kernal System |
| Gl. | Gleis |
| GLAB | Bayerisches Geologisches Landesamt |
| GLAB-W | Geologisches Landesamt Baden-Wurttemberg |
| GLAI | Green leaf area index |
| GLAN-W | Geologisches Landesamt Nordrhein-Westfalen |
| GLAS | Geoscience Laser Altimeter System; Geologisches Landesamt des Saarlandes |
| GLAS-H | Geologisches Landesamt Schleswig-Holstein |
| GLCF | Global Land Cover Facility |
| GLDAS | Global Land Data Assimilation System (NASA) |
| GLI | Global Imager |
| GLIS | Geographic Land Information System (USGS); Geographic and Land Information Society |
| GLM | General linear model; GEO Lightning Mapper |
| GLO | General Land Office (U.S.) |
| GLOBE | Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment |
| GLONASS | Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System (Russia) |
| GLOSS | Global Observation Surveillance System |
| GLR-P | Geologisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz |
| GLRS | Geoscience Laser Ranging System |
| GLT | Geospatial Light Table (ERDAS IMAGINE) |
| GM | Geography and Map; Geologic map |
| GMAT | Greenwich Mean Astronomical Time |
| G.M. | Grist mill |
| GMD | Geologisch Mijnbouwkundige Dienst van Suriname |
| GME | Geohydrologic Map Editor |
| GML | Geography Markup Language |
| GMR | Government Micro Resources Inc. |
| GMS | Geostationary meteorological satellite(s); Geographic Measurement Systems (Firm) |
G.M.S.I.
| Ground Modeling Systems Inc.; Gandalf Mobile Systems Incorporated; GMSI Inc. is a firm (not an abbreviation) |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time; Generic Mapping Tools |
| G.M.T. | Giuseppi Maria Terreni |
| GN | Grid north |
| GNC | Geologic Names Committee; Global navigation chart |
| GNIS | Geographic Names Information System (U.S.) |
| GNMP | Gettysburg National Military Park |
| GNS | GEOnet Names Server (USNIMA) |
| GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite System |
| GNU | Geologic Names Unit (USGS) |
| GNULEX | Geologic Names Unit Lexicon (USGS) |
| GO | Geometric Operations |
| G&O | Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc. |
| GoC | Government of Canada |
| GODORT | Government Documents Round Table (ALA) |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (NASA) |
| GOME | Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment |
| GOMS | Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellite(s) |
| GoMMapP | Gulf of Maine Mapping Portal |
| GOS | Geospatial One-Stop |
| GOS-PI | Geospatial One-Stop Portal Initiative (Open GIS Consortium) |
| Gov. | Governor |
| Gov. Gen. | Governor General |
| GP | Graphic production; Graphics processor; Geography Program (USGS) |
| GPF | Geospatial Prototype Facility |
| GPG | Graphic Product Generation |
| GPH | Geological Publishing House (China) |
| GPI | Graphics Programming Interface; Greenman Pedersen Inc. |
| GPIP | General Purpose Image Processor |
| GPM | Gestalt Photo Mapper |
| GP.MC | Geoprocessing Map Call |
| GP.MCD | Geoprocessing Map Call Deamon program |
| GPO | Government Printing Office |
| GPOS | Government Printing Office Style Manual |
| GPPU | Graphic Polygon Processing Utilities |
| GPR | Ground-Penetrating Radar |
| GPS | Global positioning system(s) |
| GPSDR | Global positioning system demonstration receiver |
| GPSIC | Global Positioning System Information Center (U.S. Coast Guard); GPS Industry Council |
| GPSOS | Global Positioning System Occultation Sensor
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| GPST | Global positioning system time |
| GPW2 | Gridded Population of the World (dataset) |
| GQ | Geologic quadrangle |
| GQL | Graphical Query Language |
| gr. | gross |
| Gr. | Grosse |
| GRACE | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment |
| GRAMPS | Graphic Map Production System |
| GRASS | Geographic Resource Analysis Support System |
| GRB | Government Records Branch (Library and Archives of Canada; National Archives of Canada) |
| GRC | Generation of reproducible copy; Geoscience Research Corp. |
| GRD | Ground Resolved Distance |
| GRDL | Geodetic Research and Development Laboratory |
| GRE | Geologic Resources Evaluaion (program, US NPS) |
| GRF-N | Geographic Reference File-Names |
| GRIDS | Grid Referenced Information Display System; Gridded Resource Inventory Data System |
| GRS | Geodetic Reference System |
| GRS 80 | Geodetic Reference System of 1980 |
| GRSU | Geography Remote Sensing Unit (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) |
| GS | Geological Survey (U.S.); Gray scale |
| GSA | General Services Administration (U.S.); Geological Society of America; Geological Survey of Alabama |
| GSC | Geological Survey of Canada; Geographic Systems Corp.; Geotronics Service Center; Geocode Service Center (HUD) |
| GSD | Ground sample distance; Geological Survey Dept. (Malawi); Geological Survey Div. (Jamaica); Geodetic Survey Div. (Natural Resources Canada) |
| GSDI | Global Spatial Data Infrastructure |
| GSDM | Global Spatial Data Model |
| GSDS | Global spatial data system |
| GSF | Generic Sensor Format |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA) |
| GSGS | Geographical Section, General Staff (U.K.) |
| GSHAP | Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program |
| GSI | Geodetic Survey Inst. (Japan); Geophysical Services Inc.; Geological Survey of India; Geological Survey of Iran; Geolical Survey Inst. (Japan); Geological Survey of Ireland |
| GSJ | Geological Survey of Japan |
| GSK | Geological Survey of Kenya |
| GSL | Geographic Sciences Laboratory (USCE) |
| GSM | Graphic Standard Metafile |
| GSMD | Geological Survey and Mines Dept. (Swaziland) |
| GSN | Geological Survey of Namibia |
| GSNI | Geological Survey of Northern Ireland |
| GSP | Geological Survey of Pakistan; Geographical statistics program |
| GSPB | Geodetic Satellite Policy Board |
| GSPNG | Geological Survey Papua New Guinea |
| GSRC | Geological Survey Research Committee |
| GSS | Geographic support system |
| GSSA | Geological Survey South Africa |
| GST | Galileo System Time |
| GSTC | Geospatial Service and Technology Center (USFS) |
| GSW | Geological Survey of Wyoming |
| GSWA | Geological Survey of Western Australia |
| GSZ | Geological Survey of Zambia |
| GT | Geometry and topology; Greater than; Geologian Tutkimuskeskus = Geological Survey of Finland |
| G.T. | Gas tank |
| GTE | Greater than or equal |
| GTI | GIS Technology Inc. |
| GTS | GPS Timing Simulator (NovAtel Inc.); Great Trigonometrical Survey of India |
| GTUB | Geographic tabulation unit base |
| GU | Government unit; Guam |
| GUDS | Geologicky ustav Dionyz Stur |
| GUGK | Glavnoe Upravlenie Geodezii i Kartografii (USSR) |
| GUGKK | Glavno Upravlenie po Geodezia I Kartografia y Kadaster (Bulgaria) |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| GUID | Globally unique identifier |
| GUIDE | Geomatics Utilization Inventory and Design Environment |
| GUNI | Goteborgs Universitet Naturgeografiska Institutionen |
| GUNO | Glavnoe Upravlenie Navigatsii i Okeanografii (USSR) |
| GVF | Goodness of variance fit |
| GVI | Green vegetation index |
| GVis | Geographic Visualization |
| GVIS | Geographic Visualization |
| GW | Gas well (natural); Ground water |
| GWE | Global Weather Experiment |
| GWEN | Ground Wave Emergency Network (U.S.) |
| GWSI | Groundwater site inventory |
| GZD | Grid Zone Designation |
DICTIONARY OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS,
CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING